Dino Gordon

Arizona

Nov 1 (Sat)

5:00 p.m.

Position:
Tailback
Height:
5-11
Weight:
210
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Compton, Calif.
High School:
Millikan

AT COLORADO: This Season (Fr.-RS)—He was suspended from the team for violating team rules near the end of the spring semester, but was reinstated early in fall camp after completing all the requirements he needed to be added back to the active roster (his suspension was lifted after the first five weeks of the season). He did not see game action. In the spring game he rushed for 32 yards, including a 17-yard touchdown, on four carries.

2015 (Fr.)—Redshirted; he practiced all fall at tailback.

HIGH SCHOOL—As a senior, he was named to the Long Beach Press-Telegram’s prestigious “Dream Team” roster (first-team), as well as its All-Area team; he was an honorable mention “Dream Team,” choice as a junior. He earned first-team All-Moore League honors as both a junior and senior, and was the league’s 2014 offensive player of the year. Scout.com ranked him as the No. 5 running back and the 91st-ranked prospect overall in the state of California. The Press-Telegram on Gordon: “He has an upright, physical running style that reminds many of Eric Dickerson, as well as a vicious spin move which he unleashed early and often last year.” As a senior, he had 149 rushes for 1,249 yards and 18 touchdowns, averaging 7.9 yards per carry; he had five 100-yard games (one over 300, his only game with 20 or more carries), scoring at least once in eight of 10 games. As a junior, he played in five games, carrying the ball 79 times for 608 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 7.7 yards per attempt; a 9-yard TD run on a 4th-and-2 play late in the game got Millikan on the scoreboard in a lost to Long Beach Poly, but it ended streak of 20 quarters that Poly had shutout its opponents. He had to sit out the first half of his junior season due to transfer rules, and did not play as a sophomore as his paperwork was delayed after relocating to California (he played middle school ball in New Orleans in ninth grade). Top games as a senior included a 50-7 win over Artesia, when he had 25 carries for 335 yards and six touchdowns (long run of 71 yards) – in a game played with a running clock. He also had a 2-point conversion in that game for a total of 38 points. In a 48-27 win over Woodrow Wilson, he had 121 yards on 17 carries and two touchdowns (112 on 10 first half carries). In a 47-3 win over Western, he had 11 carries for 183 yards and three scores, and did not play after the first series of the second quarter as the game was out of hand. He scored both his team’s touchdowns in a 12-9 win over Jordan, one on a 35-yard scamper and the other from in-close with just over a minute left in the game. As a junior, in his first game after becoming eligible to play, he had three carries – for 154 yards and two scores in a win over Compton. Under coach Lyn Perryman, Millikan was 6-4 his senior year and 5-5 his junior season. He also lettered in track (sprints and relays), with career personal bests of 11.19 in the 100-meter dash and 23.04 in the 200.

ACADEMICS—He is majoring in Sociology at Colorado.

PERSONAL—He was born January 17, 1996 in Compton, Calif. Among his hobbies is playing basketball. He is the first player from a Long Beach, Calif., high school to sign with the Buffaloes in 20 recruiting classes (since wide receiver WR Robert Toler from Long Beach Poly in 1995). “Dino” is his nickname; first name is Donald.